UNESCO honors children's newspaper

UNESCO honors children's newspaper

PARIS, France - Francesco Bandarin (rear C), assistant director general for culture at the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, poses for photos with Japanese children at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris on April 2, 2012, as the U.N. body honors the Fight Shimbun wall newspaper written by children in a northeastern Japanese city hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. In the front (from R) are first editor Risa Yoshida, 8, and her sister Mahiro, 4. In the center is second editor Satoko Oyama, 10, with her sister Kanako, 13, (rear L). To the right of Bandarin is coordinator and musician Misa Jonouchi.

(7)Niigata quake victims weary, worried of more damage

(7)Niigata quake victims weary, worried of more damage

HORINOUCHI, Japan - Work is in progress in the town of Jonouchi in central Niigata Prefecture on Oct. 26 to repair the Kanetsu Expressway which was heavily damaged by the Oct. 23 earthquakes.

(7)Niigata quake victims weary, worried of more damage

(7)Niigata quake victims weary, worried of more damage

HORINOUCHI, Japan - Work is in progress in the town of Jonouchi in central Niigata Prefecture on Oct. 26 to repair the Kanetsu Expressway which was heavily damaged by the Oct. 23 earthquakes. (Kyodo)

UNESCO honors children's newspaper

UNESCO honors children's newspaper

PARIS, France - Francesco Bandarin (rear C), assistant director general for culture at the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, poses for photos with Japanese children at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris on April 2, 2012, as the U.N. body honors the Fight Shimbun wall newspaper written by children in a northeastern Japanese city hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. In the front (from R) are first editor Risa Yoshida, 8, and her sister Mahiro, 4. In the center is second editor Satoko Oyama, 10, with her sister Kanako, 13, (rear L). To the right of Bandarin is coordinator and musician Misa Jonouchi. (Kyodo)